GIFs of Your Heart, Guts And Brain Are Now Possible With GE’s New CT Scanner

Illustrations and cartoons, these are not. Just released by GE, these images and GIF’s are some of the creepy but incredible results of GE’s new superfast Revolution CT (Computed Tomography) scanner. Using high-speed, low-radiation X-rays, Revolution makes it possible for doctors to create highly accurate images of patients’ blood vessels, soft tissue, organs—including the moving ones—and bones. What we’re looking at below are not digital models or graphics—they are patients’ actual innards.

The Revolution CT body scanner has implications well beyond awesome (or creepy, if you’re squeamish around blood and guts) GIFs. Physicians from Florida’s West Kendall Baptist Hospital, the first to use the scanner, just completed six months of tests with the machine. Their takeaway: It works. In particular, thanks to its speed, it allows doctors to correctly diagnose difficult cardiac patients, like those with erratic or high heartbeats, and with lower radiation emissions, X-ray pediatric patients more safely.

It’s probably going to take some time before a Revolution machine shows up at your local hospital (and cool as it is, we hope you wouldn’t need its services, anyway). For now, enjoy these factual representations of other people’s insides (see more here), and the knowledge that if you ever do need a GIF of your own beating heart, you’ll soon be able to get one.